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Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal while addressing a views exchange
programme at Secretariat Reporters Forum in the Secretariat says that
Bangladesh will stay by India if the neighbouring country is attacked in
the ongoing tension with Pakistan. Photo: Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said Bangladesh will stay
beside India if the neighbouring country is attacked following the
ongoing tension with Pakistan.
The home minister made the comment while replying to a query about
Bangladesh’s stance on the current unrest situation between India and
Pakistan following the recent Uri attack and India's retaliatory
surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC.
Meanwhile, Pakistan and India have
agreed to reduce tensions after their National Security Advisors spoke over phone, top Pakistani diplomat Sartaj Aziz said yesterday.
On Tahmid
The home minister said law enforcers did not pray for fresh remand
for Tahmid Hasib Khan, one of the Gulshan café attack survivors, as they
did not get enough information in previous remands.
“We will be able to question him further if we need it,” Kamal added.
On Sunday,
the court granted bail to Tahmid, who was released at the same night.
It was widely reported earlier that Tahmid, a Canadian university
student, and Hasnat Karim, a former private university teacher in
Bangladesh, were taken in by detectives for interrogation immediately
after the 11-hour bloody siege ended on July 2.
Hacking of Sylhet college student
The home minister firmly stated that the attacker, who stabbed Sylhet
Government Mohila College student Khadija Akter Nargis yesterday, will
be brought to justice, no matter what his political association is.
On Monday evening, Khadija, 23, a student of the college and daughter of
Masuk Miah, a resident of Hausa village in Sadar upazila, was stopped
on her way to home from college allegedly by Badrul Alam, 30, assistant
secretary of BCL unit at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
(SUST).
Hearing screams of the victim, locals rescued Khadija and caught Badrul
from the spot and handed him over to police after giving him a good
thrashing.
On border killings by BSF
The government logged protests with Indian authorities every time a
Bangladeshi citizen is killed by their Border Security Force (BSF),
Kamal said adding both the countries are working to reduce such
incidents.
“I look forward to working closely with you for advancing our
bilateral and multilateral interests and contributing to create a safe
and secured world, where our coming generations could live and continue
to prosper peacefully.”